There are moments when one can neither think nor feel, she thought, and if one can neithre feel nor think, where's one? Virginia Woolf More Quotes by Virginia Woolf More Quotes From Virginia Woolf To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. Virginia Woolf self-controlfreedommotivational And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. Virginia Woolf voicethinking Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart. Virginia Woolf treasurelightheart The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life - the number of children, whether she had money of her own, if she had a room to herself, whether she had help bringing up her family, if she had servants, whether part of the housework was her task - it is only when we can measure the way of life and experience made possible to the ordinary woman that we can account for the success or failure of the extraordinary woman as a writer. Virginia Woolf numbersaveragechildren Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. Virginia Woolf wisementhinking Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. Virginia Woolf shouldlifeorder Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure Virginia Woolf puremind A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop. Virginia Woolf healingperfecthands It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. Virginia Woolf phantomsharderreality For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob. Virginia Woolf paintearstogether What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill. Virginia Woolf skillsbelieveart Let us not take for granted that life exists more fully in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small. Virginia Woolf grantedbigs Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences. Virginia Woolf chancesilencetwo Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. Virginia Woolf programminghumorfunny I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. Virginia Woolf timebeautifulbeauty I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific. Virginia Woolf bookcasesdivine The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea. Virginia Woolf writingphilosophyart Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face. Virginia Woolf realcharactermen Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself. Virginia Woolf beliefinspirationalbelieve My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf passionreflectionbrain
